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Born in Bulgaria’s capital city, Sofia, Plamena Pehlivanova, AB’09, spent summers in the mountains with her great-grandparents, who came from a generation that lived by folkloric ideals: devotion to the land and hard labor. With her series of paintings Memoirs of a Forgotten Generation, Pehlivanova tried to capture this rural “alternative reality,” carried on through songs, dances, and stories that are disappearing as its guardians age. “This is all becoming history,” says Pehlivanova. For more, see On Exhibit.